no-go on overqualified pc

[joshparr]

i downloaded Just Cause 2(amongst other things) from the steam summer sale. i loved playing the demo on xbox 360 and decided it was time to add to my new collection of pc games on my new laptop. when i tried to play, i encountered crippling fps rendering the game unplayable on its default settings. i tried putting it at its lowest(no vsynch, bottom anti-aliasing, and lowest filter settings) and could only squeeze out 15fps from the dark tower, and i was using the newest version of gamebooster as well. i have:
8gb RAM
intel i5 processor 3GHz
stock intel family graphics card
and i run Win7 home premium 64-bit
can anybody help?

[@m]

Your laptop is quite powerful but your graphics card is not. I'm thinking that is the bottleneck. Do you know if the laptop has a separate graphics card? Sometimes laptops come with an onboard graphics card for general computing and have another graphic card for gaming. If that's the case it's possible that the laptop doesn't recognize that it should be using that graphic card.

If that's the only graphic card you have then I'm afraid there's not much you can do about it.. Do other games work fine?

[cybot]

I have an Laptop that exceeds recommended specs for the game and only a nvidia video card with 1gb of desctrete (dedicated) ddr3 memory and i am getting really low framerates as well. im only getting about 8fps on maximum settings and the very 13fps on the lowest settings. The graphics aren't jerky or anything, just really slow. it moves like it is in slow motion especially during cutscenes and the bernchmark tests. the sound and action in the cutscenes are not synchronized. the dialog stops playing long before the characters in the scene stop moving their lips.
even if the game was ignoring the 1gb of dedicated video memory, and using some or most of the shared video memory, with 8gb of system ram, there should still be plenty of memory to go around. unfortunately, in windows 7, there is no way to turn off the shared video memory (i mean seriously, there is nothing i do that needs 4gb of video memory.1 gb is way more than enough.) in xp, there was a way to turn it off, but since this game requires dx10, trying to run the game from my copy of xp pro would be pointless

i7 2.8Ghz (8 cores)
Win7 Ultimate SP1 x64
8Gb DDR3 PC3-8500
Nvidia GT330M W/1Gb of dedicated DDR3 PC3-10600 and upto 3072 dynamically shared memory
SoundBlaster Recon3D Omega Wireless

is there anything u can do for me @m?